Every year, I try to take at least one week off and unplug from the digital tools that tether me to work. While I love what I do for a living, it’s healthy to disconnect from it occasionally, though I do so with varying degrees of success. I spent last week in a house near […]
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Fotolia Back in February, I asked TechBlog readers to help me rename my print column, which has been called Computing since its inception more than 18 years ago. As I wrote in that entry: When I first started writing my Computing column for the Houston Chronicle in 1993, the technology landscape was very different. The […]
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Fotolia When I first started writing my Computing column for the Houston Chronicle in 1993, the technology landscape was very different. The first Web browser had just been released, personal computers were beginning to make a big surge into homes and the first version of Windows NT went on sale. Back then, calling the column […]
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Happy New Year, TechBlog community! With the close of another year (Oh, and 2010? Don’t let the calendar hit your butt on the way out, OK?) it’s time once again to see what stories were the most-read on the blog. As is usually the case, the list is a mix of new items and oldies-but-goodies […]
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Both TechBlog and I are taking the day off. No Linkpost today. Regular geeky coverage resumes Friday. Today, I am thankful for your support and your contributions. Actually, I’m thankful for you folks every day. Have a great Turkey Day, everyone!
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Irish filmmaker George Clarke thinks he’s stumbled across something rather strange: A film clip from a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film that appears to show a woman talking on a mobile phone. The image comes from behind-the-scenes footage shot during the premiere of The Circus at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Clarke noticed that a woman […]
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Internet memes can come and go in the wink of an eye. Last spring, I must have blinked because I missed one of the most bizarre memes ever. However, it’s never too late to share something silly with the TechBlog community on a Friday. The recipe: Assemble images of cheesy TV celebrities, aspects of nature […]
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Normally, I don’t blog about my appearances on This Week in Tech, Leo Laporte’s popular technology-news podcast, but the one coming up on Sunday has the potential to be epic. Here’s the guest lineup: • Adam Curry – One of the original MTV VJs (you remember, back when MTV was actually about music), one of […]
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Wait a minute! I thought April Fools’ Day was over . . . Tech blogger Amit Agarwal has decided that I must be part of Steve Jobs’ "new inner circle". Except for me, the mug shots above are all of people who got early iPads. I didn’t receive one, despite incessant begging a request […]
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With 2009 safely in the can – which has been sealed, placed in a plastic garbage and dumped overboard somewhere off the coast of Florida – it’s time to take a look at the year’s most-read entries here on TechBlog. As always, it’s a mix of old favorites that keep drawing readers and new items […]
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Our video blogger Kristin Finan doesn’t have an iPhone 3G, but she was bemused by the TV ads for Apple’s smartphone that tout the availability of more than 20,000 applications. She and videographer Meg Loucks decided to spoof them, along with the iconic Mac vs. PC ads. When they needed someone to play the PC, […]
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Kristin Finan, our Kristin2Go video blogger, wanted to explore the unique joy that is the Bacon Explosion, the tempting-yet-nauseating combo of bacon, sausage and BBQ that became an Internet meme late last year. However, those who know Kristin understand that she’s a healthy person. Scarfing a latticework of bacon stuffed with sausage and even more […]
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Boy, thank heaven THAT’S over. And by THAT, I mean 2008. I think there’s general consensus that this was one seriously nasty year. I’d say that 2009 could only get better but . . . well, you know . . . Anyway, as a new year dawns, it’s time to look at the most popular […]
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I’ve been meaning for some time to write about the various moving parts that make up TechBlog. This little corner of the Web has some additional features and components beyond just the entries you see here. RSS Feeds Sure, TechBlog has RSS feeds, which is how many of you read it. But did you know […]
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